UPN made a cameo in the Good Burger 2 Movie😂

The tv show Through the Decades did a story on the history of Dumont Network in 2016( with the nephew of Dumont being interviewed)

The nephew of the ceo of Dumont met Captain Video as a young boy.

I watched Moesha, Homeboys in Outer Space in the 90’s. I remember the tv sitcom vibe in tv promos.

I love WB & UPN.

My sister, Bea, invited The Stranger actor, Robert Carroll to take her to her to the senior prom, in Perryopolis, PA. He accepted and took her to the prom. It was the talk of the town. Women and girls flocked to the dance to get a glimpse of Mr. Carroll. The high school princapal kept cominnng over to their table. Frustrated with his interuptions, she said: "Mr. Hibbs, would you like to dance with Robert?". He got the message. LOL

I was kinda disappointed when I read an article at the time that UPN was purposely trying to reel in a more "Urban" audience because black folks watch more television than any other audience.

I'm kinda shocked you barely mentioned Dawson's Creek which was almost if not as big as Buffy when it premiered and the spinoffs they attempted with that. Regardless, this is a very good presentation. Well done.

I didn't watch One Tree Hill until it was rerunning on Soap Net (RIP). Sad to see it go. OTH was pretty great although I didn't stay for the time jump seasons. It just didn't look as interesting. And I'm not the biggest Korn fan, especially not as much as Linkin Park, but one scene introduced me to their cover of Word Up which is one of the best covers I ever heard!

I love this. I was routing for UPN to get all the glory that FOX had eight years prior, but upset that it didn't due to losing $800 in 2000. Two of it's parent companies (Chris-Craft and Paramount (Viacom)) had gone through drastic changes. Viacom's acquisition of 50% of UPN helped a bit (just to keep selling new episodes of "Star Trek: Voyager" rather than syndicated it). UPN was going to a shocking change when the Viacom/CBS merger (my favorite media mergers in the entertainment industry) was already planned in the process, when Chris-Craft discovers the news, they went, "Oh, crap.", But with the FCC give the owning two networks thing the go ahead, the partnership between United Television and Viacom was about to be questioned. The two partners were battling each other in court, and Viacom won, so BHC gave Viacom it's remaining interest in UPN. And the FOX Television Stations group stepped in and acquire the 10 stations Chris-Craft had, not only they're are six CBS/UPN duopolies in certain markets, but they're also four FOX/UPN duopolies in some markets as well.

Great to see the old ABC logo again!

The story of America's favorite network it's an example of decisions between survive together or dying apart

I have Noticed that sister sister is on Dabl

UPN in DC was on WDCA 20, the WB was on then WBDC channel 50, when they merged, they moved to Channel 50 which changed their call letters to WDCW. WDCA was purchased by Fox and it's now knowns as 5Plus which has more of the programming of WTTG 5.

Excellent video. Thank you!

The turning point for The WB was losing Buffy to UPN. Sarah Michelle Gellar wasn't happy about Buffy leaving The WB for UPN. Had it not been for her contract, Sarah would have left the series. The WB was very loyal to Sarah.

During the 1970s and into the 1980s Dennis James hosted the syndicated night time Price Is Right.

I Really miss The WB and UPN! My WB and UPN station affiliates were The WB 23 Minnesota and UPN 9 KMSP/UPN 29 WFTC!😭❤️📺🎶👍🏻

With a great percentage of UPN's shows featuring predominantly African American casts, I always thought of the channel as network television's answer to BET, and I do believe that it did a good job of being that alternative to those that couldn't get the more-well known version.

Two years after this video was uploaded and Connor Higgins still hasn't posted his video documenting The WB.

well made!

The FCC back then (and probably still is) headed by a person from one of the major networks -- part of their job was to discourage any competition from NBC specifically. See the book "The Golden Age of Television." UHF was available back in the 50s but NBC wanted no part of that either.

I appreciate Dumont's ill-fated history. I never realized Dumont was really a broadcast network, I thought it was a production or distribution company. I'm never surprised that Dumont didn't get the broadcasting glory that CBS and NBC had back then (with radio and TV).

Very entertaining and informative video. I also wanted to point out another special performer on Dumont in the early 50s. Paul Dixon had a daily show at about 3 or 4 PM. The guy was so zany, unscripted and hilarious and I looked forward to his show every day after I came home from Junior high school in NYC. He was so unconventional and would frequently have conversations with the camera operators and other people who normally don’t get to be on the air. I heard somewhere that he was an influence on David Letterman. So I make this comment just as appreciation for all the laughter that he provided to me.

Chris: Where do you think you go when you die? Sam: I learned from church that if you're good you go to heaven but if you're bad, you go to a place where the dead believe they're still living and they pray for death but death won't come. Chris Griffin: UPN? From Family Guy

Nice work.

Actually, Fox became the fourth official network when the relinquished the TV rights for the NFL from CBS in 1993. It would force a major realignment in television.

i had both networks and watched both of them and i loved some of the shows on those networks its sad they shutdown but they really didn't shutdown they just merge the 2 networks to make it 1 new but not really new network in the cw so they still kinda still going to this day in a way

The problem was they would have a cycle of being watchable then unwatchable and it would continue for years and I still say the upn acquiring Buffy killed angel cause a lot of us Buffy watchers moved over to the upn and didn’t go back to the wb for angel and I think they moved it to a different night so we forgot about angel cause the lady season isn’t set up like it was going to be it’s last season the warp up feels rushed cause they got the cancellation notice late in the season also what I like about you feel like a gender swapped live action remake of the short lived animated series Mission Hill that did the concept better

I am absolutely loving your channel! Keep up the great work!

i miss fearnet and was biggest mistake to kill fearnet

The black speech affectation of " indushtry" for " industry", etc ., which came from Cab Callaway , Armstrong et al making fun of Jewish cantorial singing and Yiddische English, is a major drawback here.

When reruns of THE HONEYMOONERS aired in New York in the 1970s, towards the end of the closing credits, you'd see "Shot on the DuMont Electronicam Film System". Considering that Gleason got his start on DuMont's network, that's sort of ironic.

Thank you for your short but informative documentary. I well remember Captain Video when I was a kid.

What about Magic Cottage?

It didn't happen overnight the Fox launch.

Excellent!!

AT FIRST i thought the narration was computer-generated. I'm guessing now it's just exceedingly mannered, and uncomfortable manner at that. Sound levels rise and fall, but these only impede the clarity of what sounds like Romper Room (i am 39, and have been for---well, awhile---) and Miss Whoever. Are? We? Read-? ing? Slowly E-? -nuff? Geez. The reading is pure reading, no tonal indications our hostess is comprehending, or interested, in our topic. DuMont (i've checjked: "Dumont" is incorrect, and i've slapped my own hand for having so spelled it in, well, times past) deserves better. Please stay with me as i hustle you out he door and to the driveway---do not turn around--- I learn, laboriously, that the DuMont story began (in 1931) in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. I must confess that even though a Philly boy myself, in the entire ragged swath of my life i've only encountered one reference to Upper Montclair: Bob & Ray, in their famed---legendary---routine that led to the explosive fame and elevation to permanent universal status of the Komodo Dragon (the world's largest living lizard; one swipe of its mighty tail can render its enemy senseless) ---the Expert who for has journeyed to the Finley Quality Network to discourse on the K.D. is first thanked for the effort of his journey but finally urged strongly to make immediate tracks of whatever kind for an immediate banishment-return to his home turf. This is the extent to which Upper Montclair has ever entered my mind, but we, dear reader, must enter there now. We're going out the door, you first. We'll get into my Studebaker. No sudden moves. We're heading for Upper Montclair, and using the time-travel switch next to the radio. We'll be looking, and listening, for Bob and/or Ray. We'll put them in the back seat ---notice the bottle of chloroform and monogrammed handkerchiefs* in the kitbag with my mittens and whiskey between us on the wide, wide, wide tufted bench seat. We'll (you, dear reader, Bob & Ray, and moi) rescue this truly worthy effort, with a shot of pizzazz and whiskey. DuMont deserves better! Please, re-do this video. Get a human narrator. * "Handkerchieves" is frowned on by fashion strongmen.

Will you do a video about the over-the-air music channel, TheCoolTV please?

You did not mention how back in 2000 or 2001 UPN rejected American Idol.

An excellent documentary of the founding days of television. Well researched. Thank you!

They Need To Bring Back The Chiller Channel And The Soapnet Channel I Would Like To Watch Port Charles GH Spin-Off Which Was On Soapnet Does Any One Know Where You Can Watch Port Charles On TV

Westinghouse broadcasting has always been part of CBS. So, in that aspect, DuMont still survives.

I actually don't know when FF stopped airing on Chiller. (by the way FF is Fear Factor.)

You can't forget the Fear Factor reruns from 2010-2014?

👍 Good Job!

Dumont was also a brand of television sets

Sorry about your grandmother. No pressure for vids; next week, next year...whatever; just be well and live your best life

Somehow, watching Twin Peaks, The Return, episode 8 (gotta light?) brought me here. Thank you for this excellent bit of historical context. I think it adds tremendous texture to that episode.

I loved the updated Hitchcock show.